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Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina

Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023

The Hill: US deficit is projected to roughly double this year: watchdog

The Guardian: Coming soon to a cinema near you? The return of the bed bug

The Oregonian: Confederated Tribes of Umatilla latest owners of 118-year-old Pendleton saddle maker Hamley & Co.

The Oregonian: Oregon father and son — 81 and 52 – find Camino family together on 500-mile walk

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Pumped storage hydropower is the greenest renewable energy technology, study says

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Fentanyl detox center opens in East Portland

The Guardian: Almost 1m people across Europe are homeless on any given night

The Guardian: Invasive species cost humans $423bn each year and threaten world’s diversity

The Guardian: A different kind of pothead: the Le Creuset cookware supercollectors

The Guardian: Two people detained for digging shortcut through Great Wall of China

The Guardian: Texas fracking billionaire brothers fuel rightwing media with millions of dollars

KRON: Hundreds of drug users arrested in San Francisco

KRON: Alameda crews return home after fighting fires at California-Oregon border

KTLA: 23 health care workers arrested after protesting outside Kaiser Permanente in Hollywood

LA Times: Bananas and cocaine: Two global industries collide in Ecuador, and bloodshed ensues

LA Times: As Colorado River shrinks, California farmers urge ‘one-dam solution’

LA Times: Opinion: How home insurers are trying to bully California politicians into a disastrous bailout

LA Times: Mexico’s peso is soaring. That’s bad news for people who rely on dollars sent from the U.S.

LA Times: California pharmacies are making millions of mistakes. They’re fighting to keep that secret

Press Democrat: ‘Unusual’ number of dead sea lions show up on Sonoma County beach

SFGate: Mission Peak pole, a popular Bay Area hiking destination and photo op, apparently vandalized

Marin Independent Journal: Editorial: As clothing releases dangerous microplastics, we need a solution

SFGate: California tech transplants unhappy with exodus to Austin, report says

SFGate: Inside the 80-acre nudist club hidden in the East Bay hills

SFGate: 45,000-home mega-development nears approval in Central California

East Bay Times: Anchovies swarm Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor

East Bay Times: California launches new map to track fire prevention, forest health projects

East Bay Times: Are California lawmakers weighing a secret deal to keep Big Insurance from bailing on homeowners?

SF Chronicle: Starbucks got rid of disposable cups in part of Bay Area. Here’s how it’s going

SF Chronicle: Rare old-growth redwood forest in North Bay will finally get real hiking trails

Sunday, Sept. 3, 2023

NPR: Jimmy Buffett died of a rare skin cancer

NY Times: 4 Days, 690 Miles, Countless Stalls: Behold the ‘World’s Longest Yard Sale’

ABC News: More than 85,000 highchairs are under recall after two dozen reports of falls

NY Times: Native American Boarding Schools: ‘War Against the Children’

Digg: West & South Dominate Fastest Growing College Towns

NY Times: Big Farms and Flawless Fries Are Gulping Water in the Land of 10,000 Lakes

BBC: Teacher suicide exposes parent bullying in S Korea

Smithsonian Magazine: Hackers Target Telescopes, Forcing Them to Pause Operations

The Atlantic: America Needs Hunting More Than It Knows

Washington Post: Opinion: Babies need people, not devices. Stop giving them screen time.

Washington Post: Home insurers cut natural disasters from policies as climate risks grow

Washington Post: U.S. deficit explodes even as economy grows

The Guardian: ‘It has an addictive element’: the Australians chasing the high of long-distance ice swimming

The Guardian: Fifty years on: the lasting tragedy of Chile’s coup

The Guardian: Native tribe to get back land 160 years after largest mass hanging in US history

LA Times: Californians can now carry driver’s licenses on their phone as part of pilot program

KCRA: 'It was chaos': Neighbor describes dog attack that killed Modesto great-grandmother

KRON: 2 injured after I-580 shooting, another vehicle struck by gunfire in Oakland

East Bay Times: Lake Tahoe dips to near-freezing temperatures on Labor Day weekend

East Bay Times: Concord: Kidnapping victim jumped from moving vehicle as suspect sexually assaulted her while driving, police say